European Judo Championships 1998

The 1998 European Judo Championships took place in Oviedo from May 14th to 17th . It was the first European Judo Championships in Spain since 1988 in Pamplona. The host country led the medal table and provided two title holders, the previous year Belgium as the host country had six title holders.

In 1998 the weight classes were changed compared to the previous year. While the upper limits in the super lightweight remained the same, the upper limit in the light heavyweight division was raised by five kilograms for men and six kilograms for women.

Ulla Werbrouck had recently won four light heavyweight titles in a row, after changing the weight classes, this time she won the middleweight division. However, Mark Huizinga won the middleweight division and Gella Vandecaveye won their third title in a row. Selim Tataroğlu had won the heavyweight division last year, and in 1998 he won the open class.

Results

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 60 kg)	Nestor Chergiani	Ruslan Mirsaliev	Óscar Peñas García Rashad Mamedou
Half light weight (up to 66 kg)	Larbi Benboudaoud	Islam Maziyev	Patrick van Kalken Georgi Revasishvili
Lightweight (up to 73 kg)	Giuseppe Maddaloni	Andrei Golban	Ilja Tschimtschiuri Rafał Kozielewski
Medium weight (up to 81 kg)	Bertalan Hajtós	Mehman Assisov	Dirk Radszat Irakli Uznadze
Middle weight (up to 90 kg)	Mark Huizinga	Marko Spittka	Dmitri Morozov Vincenzo Carabetta
Light heavyweight (up to 100 kg)	Daniel Gürschner	Radu Ivan	Yuri Stjopkin Ben Sonnemans
Heavy weight (over 100 kg)	Tamerlan Tmenow	Rafał Kubacki	Selim Tataroğlu Imre Csősz
Open class	Selim Tataroglu	Harry Van Barneveld	Dennis van der Geest Indrek Pertelson

Women

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 48 kg)	Sarah Nichilo	Tatiana Kuwschinowa	Jolanta Wojnarowicz Yolanda Soler
Half light weight (up to 52 kg)	Raffaella Imbriani	Georgina Singleton	Isabelle Schmutz Marie-Claire Restoux
Lightweight (up to 57 kg)	Isabel Fernández	Deborah Allan	Magali Baton Deborah Gravenstijn
Medium weight (up to 63 kg)	Gella Vandecaveye	Sara Álvarez	Nancy van Stokkum Radka Štusáková
Middle weight (up to 70 kg)	Ulla Werbrouck	Karin Kienhuis	Ylenia Scapin Kate Howey
Light heavyweight (up to 78 kg)	Esther San Miguel	Celine Lebrun	Uta Bold Chloe Cowen
Heavy weight (over 78 kg)	Karina Bryant	Raquel Barrientos	Christine Cicot Sandra Köppen
Open class	Françoise Harteveld	Beata Maksymov	Irina Rodina Katja Gerber

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Spain	2	2	2	6th
2	Netherlands	2	1	5	8th
3	Germany	2	1	4th	7th
	France	2	1	4th	7th
5	Belgium	2	1	-	3
6th	Russia	1	2	3	6th
7th	United Kingdom	1	2	2	5
8th	Turkey	1	-	2	3
9	Georgia	1	-	1	2
	Italy	1	-	1	2
	Hungary	1	-	1	2
12	Poland	-	2	2	4th
13	Ukraine	-	1	1	2
14th	Azerbaijan	-	1	-	1
	Moldova	-	1	-	1
	Romania	-	1	-	1
17th	Belarus	-	-	1	1
	Estonia	-	-	1	1
	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
	Czech Republic	-	-	1	1
	Total	16	16	32	64

Web links

• Results of the European Championships 1998 on judoinside.com
• Judo results history on sport-komplett.de